First and foremost, know there are plenty of planets squaring each other in the sky, which is to say there's no shortage of friction, irritation or agitation. And this is ours to work with. The trick is to not shy away from the feelings that are arising and at the same time remember not to identify with them. The middle ground is to honor your feelings by channeling this energy into creating what you love in this world. No more projecting your anger, or suppressing your sadness. Enough with the frustration that accompanies playing the role of victim. The world needs us to take all this high charged energy and stop making it about you. Mercury went retrograde into Pisces to take us all into the beauty and the dregs of human emotions. There's a lot to feel. An overwhelming amount, when we identify and label our emotions as "mine."
There truth is, we're all empathic on some level. While some are more sensitive to the experience of feeling everyone else's feelings (a shout out to my fellow water and earth signs), we are all effected by the feelings of those around us and in the world at large.
As Mercury moves forward, and Mars prepares to do the same on April 13, we have a great opportunity to comprehend our unique contribution to the collective and put into motion our unique gift to humanity. In deference to time constraints and keeping this message simple, I'll save you the planetary aspects to which I'm referring, and simply illuminate the month ahead.
First, I implore you to gather the ocean of emotions you have moving through you. It doesn't matter if it's your story, or his-story, or the world's unfolding narrative. Table your subjective identification with your feelings, and step forward with your work, your contribution, to a planet desperate for you to be you. If you're holding yourself back, denying your heart's calling and giving credence instead to the false beliefs designed by a survival based ego structure, now's the time to make the shift from fear to freedom, from darkness to light and from death to immortality.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simple, albeit extremely opposed, task of walking your truth will create a ripple effect of immeasurable value in our collective consciousness. With Mars accumulating all of Virgo's energy in its retrograde cycle, we have an enormous opportunity to fully regain our strength when it goes direct (April 13). Caveat emptor, if you want to see your dreams and intentions manifest, Mars in Virgo makes one simple request... that you direct your energy, your powerful life force, in a way that serves the highest good of all concerned. Really drop in and ask your Self, "is this in my highest good?" Next check in with your intuition and ask "is this in the highest good of all concerned?" I've mentioned in the past how potent our intuitive faculties are with Neptune in Pisces. Right now Venus in Gemini is creating friction between what your thinking mind (Gemini) wants to attract (Venus), and the alignment of your intuitive perception (Neptune) with the highest good for all concerned (Pisces). We're being given another review of where our ego attachments and habituations still muddle the union of what we want and what we need. Don't get down on yourself if you're discovering things that make you feel uncomfortable. Use it as the fuel you need to step forth in a new, more truthful way.
April 21 brings an incredible opportunity to make the shifts you now realize you need to make. The new Moon conjunct the Sun in Taurus forms a harmonious grand trine aspect to the newly direct Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Capricorn. Take all that's pouring through you now (the good, the bad and the ugly) and direct it into what you love.
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~ Rumi
Plant your seeds. Be intentional. Let die what needs to die now, and at this next new moon be prepared to plant the seeds of your heart's calling. Be prepared for the persistent denial that arises in the thinking mind. Take everything that opposes your intentions (negative thought patterns, challenging social circumstance, etc.) and instead of identifying this opposition as yet another validation of the false ego-construct that says "I'm not good enough," reconcile the resistance by channeling it into usable energy to proceed like the phoenix rising out of the fire. Soar powerfully into that good night, and rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Do not go gentle into that good night,
- Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
- Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
- Because their words had forked no lightning they
- Do not go gentle into that good night.
- Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
- Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
- Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
- And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
- Do not go gentle into that good night.
- Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
- Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
- Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- And you, my father, there on the sad height,
- Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
- Do not go gentle into that good night.
- Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas
Thank you all for your courageous contribution to our collective awakening.
Stellar Blessings,
Ryan
www.bodyworkastrology.com
namaste
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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1817-1862